CZ: The CEX wallet now supports identifying malicious addresses. Attempting to transfer to them will trigger a warning.

On December 24th, CEX founder CZ posted on CEX Square stating, “The cryptocurrency industry should be able to completely eradicate address poisoning attacks and protect users. All wallets should simply check whether the receiving address is a poisoned address and block the user. This is a blockchain query. Additionally, security alliances within the industry should maintain real-time blacklists of these addresses so that wallets can check before sending transactions. CEX wallets are already doing this. If a user attempts to send to a malicious address, they will receive a warning. Finally, wallets should not even display these spam transactions anywhere. If the transaction value is small, it should be filtered out.”